to and modifications of the present building, the construction
of one new block on another site, and the construction of a new prison on a whole new site.
You incline yourself to the first plan as most in harmony with the wishes likely to be held by the community, and I wish I could bring myself to sanction it for the reason that it is the only one that, given the delay has already been so great, any scheme which is likely to be pushed forward quickly.
3. The objections, however, to M Brown's scheme present much to commend itself, some of which have not had full consideration. It seems on the surface that Brown's calls attention to insuperable objections that would be overwhelming. The two evils which it is wished to remedy, viz crowding and association, would under it still continue. For the crowding of prisoners in the buildings must be substituted crowding of buildings on the site: outbuildings of four elevations which now impede the circulation of air, would be pulled down, and the area thus cleared, with a still larger space, would be filled by a large three-storied block, shutting out all light and air and absorbing the space needed for exercising yards, workshops, and other essentials.